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Geno

Auriemma

College basketball

The Connecticut women's basketball coach signed a new $10.86 million contract, a deal designed to keep him at the school through the 2017-18 season, UConn announced Wednesday. Auriemma, 59, has coached at UConn since 1985. He will make $1.95 million in salary, speaking fees and media fees in the next year. That will gradually increase to $2.4 million in the final year of the five-year contract.

Wilfredo

Gomez

Boxing

The former Puerto Rican world champion is in critical condition in a San Juan, Puerto Rico, hospital following respiratory failure, a family spokesman said. Erick Rodriguez told The Associated Press that Gomez, 56, widely considered to be the best Puerto Rican fighter in history, is struggling to recover from a lung infection.

Gomez's sister-in-law, Nydia Hernandez, said the former boxer is under sedation in an intensive care unit and is breathing with the assistance of a tube.

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